The Rolling Stones show time’s still on their side with crackling ‘Hackney Diamonds’

Well if it it takes them another 18 years for their next album, I wouldn’t be surprised if Mick was still on stage at 98!

After 30 years of doing the same kind of stuff, I'm hoping this is a good LP. The Stones never seemed to appreciate their own ability and versatility with lyrics and they started writing some pretty generic stuff musically as well. It's been a long disappointing time waiting for this and I hope it is as good as the review. Their body of work is impressive but the later stuff, well, just not as good as I know they could do. Here's hoping.

Many would probably go as far as to say Jagger is the Stones is Jagger.

(How well do you remember 2005's “A Bigger Bang”?)

Remember it well. Just off the top of my head some of the songs I love from that album: "Rough Justice"; "She Saw me Coming"; "Let Me Down Real Slow"; "Oh No Not You Again"; "Streets of Love..."

Also loved the solo track they released in the interim: "Doom and Gloom."

"Blue and Lonesome" was the only recent album that didn't grab my attention.

The first track released off the new album "Don't get Angry" was a lot of fun.

Look forward to the rest of the album "Hackney Diamonds." RIP CHARLIE.

@zones2surf

Nice memory for you. Charlie was good that night, wasn't he? He was the most level-headed of them all. RIP Without Charlie and the guitar of the Mick who could play one the sound of the Stones and "sympathy" for these "devils" has inevitably been diminished. Not heard their Hackney Diamonds yet, but I'm hoping to be surprised by this, their probable swan song.

I saw the Angry EP going for ¥5,000 in Disc Union. It's not that good. And I don't like video either.

I am a huge Stones fan, but there comes a time when all good things must come to an end.

The Stones without Charlie Watts is not the Stones. It's just not.

I had the pleasure of meeting Charlie Watts one evening in Tokyo many years ago. At a well-known Roppongi shot bar.

I was stopping by after work, early, on my way to a dinner, and there is this guy there, behind the front bar, rolling a cigarette. He looked up and said "Do you want a drink?"

I looked to the left at the head bartender, my friend, and he nodded. So, I said yes and told him my drink. Up it came and then he asked me if I wanted a cigarette which I said yes and he proceeded to roll me a cig.

We chatted a bit and then he said he was heading off. He said that he had a gig in Tokyo and to talk to the bartender if I wanted to go.

He walked out and the head bartender walked up and asked "Do you know how that was?"

My answer was simply... "Charlie Watts."

What an honor and a pleasure it was. The glue that bonded the Stones!